Obliged
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After two and a half months of strike, when they had returned to the pits, conquered by hunger, they had been
obliged
to accept the timbering tariff, that disguised decrease in wages, now the more hateful because stained with the blood of their mates.
"Nothing
obliged
me to grant you hospitality.
So I was
obliged
not to exceed this weight while building it to the aforesaid dimensions.
In this long, blackish object advancing flush with the water, didn't they see some fearsome cetacean that they were
obliged
to view with distrust?
I often heard them repeat the word "assai," and from their gestures I understood they were inviting me to go ashore, an invitation I felt
obliged
to decline.
He listened with all his ears, as attentive as if at a sermon, not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o'clock the bell rang, the master was
obliged
to tell him to fall into line with the rest of us.
"If you were like me," said Charles, "constantly
obliged
to be in the saddle"—"But," Leon went on, addressing himself to Madame Bovary, "nothing, it seems to me, is more pleasant—when one can," he added.
The druggist's ears tingled as if he were about to have an apoplectic stroke; he saw the depths of dungeons, his family in tears, his shop sold, all the jars dispersed; and he was
obliged
to enter a cafe and take a glass of rum and seltzer to recover his spirits.
And one is constantly
obliged
to keep one's hand in one's pocket there.
If she were obliged, like so many others, to earn her living, she wouldn't have these vapours, that come to her from a lot of ideas she stuffs into her head, and from the idleness in which she lives."
But they were
obliged
to separate from each other because of a great pile of chairs that a man was carrying behind them.
Chapter FourteenTo begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for all the physic supplied by him, and though, as a medical man, he was not
obliged
to pay for it, he nevertheless blushed a little at such an obligation.
The clerk declared he would not fail to do so, being obliged, moreover, to go to Yonville on some business for his office.
Emma opened the window, called Charles, and the poor fellow was
obliged
to confess the promise torn from him by his mother.
Chapter SixDuring the journeys he made to see her, Leon had often dined at the chemist's, and he felt
obliged
from politeness to invite him in turn.
Once even he was
obliged
to dismount.
He was
obliged
to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture.
For all his pride, the Mayor was
obliged
to make many overtures to old Sorel, a dour and obstinate peasant; he was
obliged
to pay him in fine golden louis before he would consent to remove his mill elsewhere.
The parapet of this wall, to secure which M. de Renal was
obliged
to make three journeys to Paris, for the Minister of the Interior before last had sworn a deadly enmity to the Verrieres avenue; the parapet of this wall now rises four feet above the ground.
It occurred to M. de Renal that he would be
obliged
to describe to his wife the part he had played throughout this transaction.
'I am by no means as enchanted as you are with this little peasant; your kindness will turn him into an impertinent rascal whom you will be
obliged
to send packing within a month.''Very well!
'No, Sir,' Julien replied coldly, 'if you chose to dismiss me I should be
obliged
to go.
He had so scanty a supply of linen that he was
obliged
to send it out constantly to be washed, and it was in performing these little services that Elisa made herself useful to him.
The poverty of the small house in which people would be
obliged
to live, with an income of fifty louis, portrayed itself to her in enchanting colours.
So that Madame Derville should not notice anything, he felt himself
obliged
to speak; his voice, now, was loud and ringing.
Julien did not notice a detail which would have greatly reassured him; Madame de Renal, who had been
obliged
to remove her hand from his, on rising to help her cousin to pick up a pot of flowers which the wind had overturned at their feet, had no sooner sat down again than she gave him back her hand almost without difficulty, and as though it had been an understood thing between them.
She was
obliged
to take her place at table.
Yesterday, at Verrieres, he will have asked for three days in which to think things over; and this morning, so as not to be
obliged
to give me an answer, the young gentleman goes off to the mountains.
He was
obliged
to pass over the high range to the north of Vergy.
As he opened the door of his room, he trembled so much that his knees gave way beneath him, and he was
obliged
to lean against the wall.
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